Commentary: La Cocina Inn reluctant to change its menu

Readers of this column will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that its author spent quite a few formative years in Longmont.

What? Someone so urbane, so cosmopolitan, so hip and with it actually spent the better part of his elementary and secondary education in a small town? Oh, yes. Dad relocated us from Denver in 1970 when I was but a squirming third grader.

One of our first out-of-house dining experiences after we moved was to a small Mexican-food restaurant located in a turn-of-the century building on Main Street (isn’t it just too cool that I grew up in a town…